Haitian-American Pianist Jonathan Cambry is Co-founder and CEO of American Chamber Opera in Chicago

Jonathan Paul Cambry

Jonathan Paul Cambry (b. 1982) is a Haitian-American classical pianist who has been featured in AfriClassical since 2008.  In 2011 he co-founded American Chamber Opera in Chicago.  Its website is www.americanchamberopera.org.  Jonathan Cambry is now Chief Executive Officer of American Chamber Opera.  The company's final production of 2012 was Messiah, December 1 and 2, 2012.  

Productions scheduled for 2013 are Madame Butterfly, Die Fledermaus, The Magic Flute and Carmen.  Madame Butterfly will be performed January 18-20 and February 8-10, 2013.

Bio

Jonathan Paul Cambry is a Haitian-American, classically trained pianist and producer from the southside of Chicago. His teachers included David Andrews, Joseph Schwartz, Mario delli Ponti, Sedmara Zakarian Rutstein, Sanford Margolis, William Goldenberg, Graham Scott, and Kuang-Hao Huang. Cambry currently serves as the Chief Executive Officer of American Chamber Opera Company. 

He is currently one of the most viewed and most subscribed classical pianists on YouTube to date, with over 2.5 million views combined and over 4,000 subscribers. He has posted over 50 music videos of himself playing the works of Scriabin, Rachmaninoff, Chopin, Liszt, Ravel and other composers. In 1997, Cambry won the Silver Medal at the ACT-SO Awards competition for the Music Instrumental-Classical category and in 1998 and 1999 won the Gold Medal in the categories of Music Instrumental-Classical and Music Instrumental-Contemporary. 

Cambry has been a performing classical solo pianist since 2000. Cambry’s recent performance included Orchestra Hall at the Chicago Symphony Center on May 27, 2012. Cambry collaborated with world-renowned pianists such as Marc-Andre Hamelin, Emanuel Ax, Valentina Lisitsa, Jorge Federico Osorio, David Hyde Pierce, Hyung-ki Joo, Orli Shaham, and Jonathan Biss. Thanks to his YouTube popularity in 2006, he was invited to perform in a gallery opening in New York, performances in Svendborg-Denmark, Amsterdam, Malaysia, Italy, and all over the United States. 

In April of 2010, Jonathan Cambry debuted a new technology, an orchestra comprised of only live software instruments using Logic Studio. This was the first known performance of Sergei Rachmaninoff’s 2nd Piano Concerto accompanied by a fully complete software orchestra. 

Cambry’s performances in the United States also include Laguna Beach, Laguna Hills, Tustin, Dana Point in California, the Mile Hi Church in Lakewood, CO, Chicago, IL, New York City, NY, University of Montana-Missoula, and other locations in the Midwest through the generosity in sponsorship from great friends Thomas and Deborrah Willard. While at the University of Montana, Cambry was invited to lecture a class of 120 students in the business program.

Cambry has also performed at historic landmarks in Chicago including the Art Institute of Chicago, Adler Planetarium, Harold Washington Public Library, The Field Museum, Shedd Aquarium, Willis Tower, United Airlines Building, Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum, Fulton Hall and Mendel Hall at the University of Chicago.